“Is the trick done?” or something of that sort.
He could imagine the men’s short answer.
Then probably the gang got down to business again with Snell and Leonard.
It would do no good to try to tell what Patsy’s thoughts and feelings were.
He had been unlucky enough before to get captured by men who meant to kill him.
On other occasions he had worked himself free, or Nick or Chick had come just in time to rescue him.
Nick was thousands of miles away.
Chick wasn’t on this strange case at all.
The cords upon his hands and legs were very firm.
And yet the young man felt no despair.